Damaging is an English word with synonyms like detrimental or prejudicial. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Damaging meaning
Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
Synonyms of Damaging
Using Damaging
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
- Useful related words include: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious, harmful.
- In the example corpus, damaging often appears in combinations such as: and damaging, damaging the, damaging to.
Context around Damaging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Damaging
- In this selection, "damaging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, environmentally, unknown, admits, health, blows and way stand out and add context to how "damaging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accused of damaging or destroying, against these damaging claims and potentially damaging. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "damaging" sits close to words such as matching, triggered and climb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with damaging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And the climate-damaging fuels are also heavily subsidized. (9 words)
Also, ensure you scrub your devices properly to avoid damaging them. (11 words)
Any damaging Boons work great with this combination, trivializing most encounters. (11 words)
Michal Pilarski, 38, of 7 Mayflower Mews, Grantham, pleaded guilty to damaging a remote control, a Samsung mobile phone to a value unknown, damaging the walls of a property by writing on them to a value unknown, assault by beating and assault. (42 words)
Another charity founded by Dame Ann, Freedom from Fistula, which supports women in Africa who have been seriously injured during childbirth, said it would support her ‘in her decision to vigorously defend herself against these damaging claims’. (37 words)
Visible light is able to affect a few molecules with single photons, but usually not in a permanent or damaging way, in the absence of power high enough to increase temperature to damaging levels. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was a reference to Mr Johnson's claim that the EU's "pointless, expensive, environmentally damaging health and safety" regulations were damaging the trade in kippers.
He landed plenty but few were damaging and clear-cut, as opposed to Mchunu, whose more damaging blows thanks to his power, connected at more occasions in the balance of things.
Michal Pilarski, 38, of 7 Mayflower Mews, Grantham, pleaded guilty to damaging a remote control, a Samsung mobile phone to a value unknown, damaging the walls of a property by writing on them to a value unknown, assault by beating and assault.
Visible light is able to affect a few molecules with single photons, but usually not in a permanent or damaging way, in the absence of power high enough to increase temperature to damaging levels.
A 21-year-old appeared in court accused of damaging or destroying the door to a local train station.
According to the complaint, the statement was made before the media and broadcast through Twitter with the intention of damaging the reputation of the university, despite knowing that such utterances would be defamatory.
After all, the Afghanistan withdrawal has proven to be the single most damaging event of Biden’s presidency.
After all, the law of defamation is intended to protect people (much less public figures) not from negative opinion but from false claims of fact that are damaging to one’s reputation.
A lack of funding and pay is damaging the school experience for children and young people, a headteacher has said.
Also admits damaging a Peugeot motor vehicle belonging to a man in The Marina, Bournemouth, on September 7, 2022.
Also, ensure you scrub your devices properly to avoid damaging them.
A Met Office weather warning, for potentially damaging winds, ended at 15:00 GMT on Thursday.
Among the parts of the economy hurt by the strikes include pubs and restaurants, which had already been crippled by draconian and damaging restrictions imposed during the Covid pandemic.
An Alberta conservation group says off-highway vehicles are damaging the environment in public lands near Banff and Jasper National Parks, and wants the Alberta government to institute stronger protections.
And also, of course, plastic throughout its life cycle, it’s damaging to ocean health and ocean’s – the ocean’s ability to be resilient in the face of all these other changes.
And the climate-damaging fuels are also heavily subsidized.
And the third from Oct. 6 accuses Bridges of damaging the person’s property and violating a restraining order.
An EF-2 tornado touched down in New Jersey on Tuesday, leveling trees, damaging homes and displacing about 100 residents, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Another charity founded by Dame Ann, Freedom from Fistula, which supports women in Africa who have been seriously injured during childbirth, said it would support her ‘in her decision to vigorously defend herself against these damaging claims’.
Any damaging Boons work great with this combination, trivializing most encounters.
Phrases with damaging
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with damaging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and damaging 23×
- damaging the 22×
- damaging to 15×
- damaging winds 12×
- of damaging 10×
- more damaging 9×
- potentially damaging 9×
- damaging and 8×
- environmentally damaging 7×
- is damaging 7×